MICROCOSMOGRAPHIA
ACADEMICA

BEING A GUIDE FOR THE YOUNG
ACADEMIC POLITICIAN

F. M. CORNFORD

Published by Bowes & Bowes Publishers Ltd, Cambridge

First published 1908

ORIGINAL EDITION PRINTED IN CAMBRIDGE BY METCALFE & COMPANY LTD

TO
EDWARD GRANVILLE BROWNE

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If you are young, do not read this book; it is not fit for you;
If you are old, throw it away; you have nothing to learn from it;
If you are unambitious, light the fire with it; you do not need its guidance.

But, if you are neither less than twenty-five years old, nor more than thirty;
And if you are ambitious withal, and your spirit hankers after academic politics;
Read, and may your soul (if you have a soul) find mercy!